Katharina Schulze

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Katharina Schulze

Katharina Elisabeth Schulze (born June 20, 1985 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). She has been a member of the Bavarian state parliament since the state elections in Bavaria in 2013 and has been one of the two chairmen of the parliamentary group of the Greens since 2017 . Together with Ludwig Hartmann, she was the top candidate of the Bavarian Greens for the state election in 2018 and, together with Hartmann, became the opposition leader in the Bavarian state parliament after this election .

Life

Origin, studies and professional activity

Schulze grew up in Herrsching am Ammersee . She passed her Abitur in June 2005 at the Christoph-Probst-Gymnasium in Gilching , where she was also the student representative. Schulze studied intercultural communication , political science and psychology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from October 2005 to 2011 . From August to December 2008, she spent a semester abroad at the University of California, San Diego , and did an internship with the Democratic Party in Michigan . She completed her studies in 2011 with the title Magister artium in Political Science. According to her own account, Katharina Schulze worked for various companies during her studies. a. Siemens , akzente kommunikation und beratung, Kienbaum , Doctors of the World , InWEnt - international further education. From February 2012 to September 2013 she worked for the Society for Ecological Research (GöF) in Munich and during that time also worked part-time as a research assistant for Theresa Schopper, member of the state parliament, and as an intercultural trainer.

Green politician since 2008

Katharina Schulze at the lectern in the plenary session of the Bavarian State Parliament.  Photo: Andreas Gregor
Katharina Schulze in the Bavarian State Parliament 2017

Katharina Schulze joined the Green Youth in 2008 . There she was particularly involved in the field of environmental and climate protection, but also in gender politics. From January 2009 to January 2011 she was the spokesperson for the Green Youth Munich. From 2009 to 2014 she was a member of the party council of the Bavarian Greens and from November 2010 to May 2015 chairwoman of the Greens in Munich. During this time, the federal party of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen rejected the planned Olympic Winter Games in Munich in 2018 . From 2009 to 2014 she was a member of the party council of the Bavarian Greens, where she helped shape upcoming election campaigns and the structural reform of the state party. She chaired the Munich Greens from November 2010 to May 2015. In doing so, she concentrated in particular on the structural reform of the green district association of Munich, the organization of six election campaigns, Munich city politics and the organization and participation in the referendums on the 3rd runway and NOlympia. Katharina Schulze has been a member of the state committee of the Bavarian state association of the Greens since her election as parliamentary group leader. This body coordinates the political activities of the regional association and advises and supports the regional board of the party. In 2018, Katharina Schulze was elected as the top candidate by her party in a Bavarian primary election with 89.25% unopposed candidate. In November 2019 Katharina Schulze was elected to the party council BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN .

Member of Parliament since 2013

She was elected to the state parliament for the first time in the Bavarian state elections on September 15, 2013 . As a direct candidate in the Munich-Milbertshofen constituency, she achieved 13.6% of the first votes and was thus behind the candidates from the CSU and SPD . After the fifth place on the green list for the constituency of Upper Bavaria , she finally landed in seventh place with the total votes, which made her entry into the state parliament. Katharina Schulze was at the constituent session of the 17th Bavarian State Parliament on October 7, 2013, together with Judith Gerlach (CSU) as one of the two youngest members of parliament. In the 17th Bavarian state parliament she was deputy chairwoman and spokeswoman for the interior, sport and strategies against right-wing extremism of the green parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament. She represented the parliamentary group in the committee for communal questions, internal security and sport as well as in the committee for constitution, law and parliamentary questions, as well as in the board of trustees of the Munich School of Politics (HfP), in the HfP reform advisory board and in the state sports advisory board as well as the parliamentary control committee. In February 2017, she was elected chairman of the parliamentary group to succeed Margarete Bause .

In the 2018 Bavarian state election , Katharina Schulze ran alongside Ludwig Hartmann as the Bavarian top candidate and was also on the green list for the constituency of Upper Bavaria . In the election on October 14, 2018, she won 34 in her constituency of Munich-Milbertshofen , 9% the direct mandate. After the constitution of the 18th Bavarian state parliament, she was re-elected chairman of the green parliamentary group. As before, its co-chair is Ludwig Hartmann. There she is a member of the Committee for Local Affairs, Homeland Security and Sport.

In January 2020, the state parliament lifted Schulze's immunity because she had " fingered " protesters at an NPD event in September 2018 . The proceedings were discontinued against payment of 500 euros to a non-profit organization of their choice. She is not considered to have a criminal record. The following month she received a reprimand from the Presidium of the Bavarian State Parliament for designating the AfD as a fascist party and its faction in the Thuringian state parliament as neo-Nazis .

Political positions and controversies

Engagement against the 3rd runway at Munich Airport

Katharina Schulze presents the poster for the referendum on the third runway at Munich Airport
Katharina Schulze presents the poster for the 2012 referendum

Katharina Schulze has been the spokeswoman for Munich against the third runway since 2011 and contributed to the referendum against the third runway at Munich Airport being won. She campaigns against the third runway at Munich Airport because she sees no need for it: the noise and exhaust emissions for people and animals in the surrounding area are undisputed and an expansion of the airport would contradict the goals of climate protection for Katharina Schulze .

Engagement against the Olympic Winter Games in Munich and the region in 2018

Katharina Schulze is also the spokeswoman for NOlympia Munich , an action alliance that campaigned against Munich's bid for the Olympic Games in 2018 and 2022 . In particular, she criticizes the intransparent IOC and the pursuit of commerce and profit instead of a focus on people and sport itself. In a referendum in 2013, majorities in Munich as well as the three other affected municipalities spoke out against renewed applications.

Domestic politics

For Katharina Schulze, the focus of green domestic politics is on safeguarding civil rights. That is why she is committed to protecting people's personal freedom and privacy. Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen are calling for investigation methods that protect fundamental rights in the Bavarian State Parliament instead of unjustified data retention and more participation. For example, it calls for the voting age to be reduced to 16 years. At the same time, state action in Bavaria also requires more transparency through a transparency law that she introduced into the state parliament in the 17th legislative period: For Katharina Schulze, green civil rights policy is only possible with more democratic participation.

digitalization

Katharina Schulze's focus as leader of the Greens in the Bavarian state parliament is also the topic of digitization and its technical and cultural significance. For them, the advancing digitization is an opportunity for the future of education, mobility, energy supply and our health and care, which, however, deserves political support. Alliance 90 / The Greens complain in the Bavarian state parliament about the slow expansion of infrastructure and the lack of clarity on key issues of digitization: for example, how sovereignty over one's own data can be retained and how human autonomy can be guaranteed when artificial intelligence is making such rapid advances.

Katharina Schulze (2019)

Controversy about culture of remembrance: the “rubble women” debate in Munich 2013

In December 2013 Katharina Schulze and her colleague Sepp Dürr temporarily covered a memorial on Marstallplatz in Munich, dedicated to “The rubble women and the building generation” with a brown cloth, printed with the statement “A memorial for the right people, not the old Nazis. Against Spaenle's misunderstanding of history ”. The action sparked a heated debate about the build-up generation in Munich.

Reactions to vacation travel 2019

In January 2019 Katharina Schulze published a vacation photo from California on the Internet , which showed a serving of ice cream with a plastic spoon in a disposable cup and was subtitled with the statement Starting the year Right . She was then accused of “double standards” in social networks and her behavior was discussed under the hashtag “Kerosin-Katha”. Some newspapers took up the matter; Among other things, a contradiction between the environmental protection interests of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and the start of long-distance trips by party members was pointed out. Schulze himself, parliamentary group leader Anton Hofreiter and the party's press office responded to the criticism of the vacation trip with the fact that not individuals but politicians are responsible and that legal conditions are required for ecological travel and waste avoidance.

Memberships

Schulze is a member of the Bund Naturschutz and a supporting member of the Antifascist Information, Documentation and Archive Office Munich e. V. (aida).

Private

Schulze is in a relationship with the green member of the Bundestag Danyal Bayaz .

Publications

Web links

Commons : Katharina Schulze  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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